• Preposition stranding or p-stranding is the syntactic construction in which a so-called stranded, hanging or dangling preposition occurs somewhere other...
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  • discontinuous structure (preposition stranding). When pied-piping occurs, the preposition phrase is continuous, because the preposition follows the focused...
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    a preposition may be absent or may be moved from its position directly following the preposition. This may be referred to as preposition stranding (see...
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    has of the car as a complement. Preposition fronting (see English clause syntax § Fronting and zeroing) and stranding can occur when the complement PP...
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  • English prepositions. The following are single-word prepositions that can take a noun phrase complement following the preposition. Prepositions in this...
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    rule about this, see preposition stranding.) a. Who can you bank on? Susan is someone (who) you can bank on. – on is a preposition in terminal position...
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  • a non-preposition-stranding language. Stjepanović conducted research on whether that is possible in Serbo-Croatian, a non-preposition-stranding language...
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  • Scene i Some prescriptive grammar prohibits "preposition stranding": ending sentences with prepositions. This is the sort of English up with which I will...
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  • that preposition stranding should be avoided in English as well, although it may feel artificial or stilted to a native speaker to move the preposition. A...
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  • resulting in preposition stranding c. That one house on the hill Bill is living in. - Topicalization of NP resulting in preposition stranding a. Shelly has...
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